RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm by Faith No More.)
(February 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I mean, I don't do anything illicit that I would give a shit if my company "tracked" me. If they really wanted to, they could do that with my keycard anyhow.
I'd try it, to see if it made other things easy. So long as I had the opportunity to get it removed/disabled whenever I wanted.
They might be able to track you on their premises with the keycard, but it would be difficult to do outside of that, no? An RFID chip should make it easy to track you all over, unless maybe the transimission of the frequency is too weak? Maybe someone with more knowledge on that can enlighten us.
Still, you would have to trust your company that it was only a tracking chip they were injecting into you.
And it's not a matter of doing anything illicit. It's a matter of privacy, and giving away your privacy is giving others power over you.
Even with the RFID keycards you can choose to leave those somewhere. You don't have to carry them on your person at all times. You have no such liberties with an inserted chip without digging into your flesh.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
